Peru’s fight against tuberculosis demonstrates how global neglect endangers public health. COVID-19 setbacks, poverty, and limited care have driven TB’s rise. Now, proposed US aid cuts threaten ...

The Forrest City School District has announced that a possible tuberculosis (TB) case has been reported within the school system.

Most Wisconsin children received a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth in 2024, and about 83% had completed the series by 2 years old.

Tuberculosis (TB) just resurfaced in suburban Illinois, and critics say Washington's retreat from global health programs could let the world's deadliest infection stage a comeback at home. TB killed ...

NEW YORK — Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored in ...

State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded. The ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area has ...

Kansas is currently facing the worst tuberculosis outbreak in the state’s history. Two people have died in the outbreak. What to know about a tuberculosis vaccine. A tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in ...

The Wyandotte County Public Health Department building at 619 Ann Ave., is seen on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Kansas City, Kansas. Emily Curiel [email protected] Reality Check is a Star series ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...